Sunday, October 25, 2015

Data Resources


United States

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
http://www.consumerfinance.gov/

United Kingdom

National Institute of Economic and Social Research
http://www.niesr.ac.uk/


Europe
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat


Saturday, March 31, 2012

DW Nominate = US congressional politcal views

I have been looking for some time at the liberal conservative split in congress. But there is no simple formula for characterizing someones voting record.

The national journal has politcal ratings and so does americans for democratic action. But the best is DW Nominate. The voterview blog uses the DW Nominate.

Welcome to Evil Black Economist Technical Topics

Yes, I had to create another Blog. The topics and details did not fit under by current blogs. This one is for technical topics, methods, algorithms and formula used in the other blogs.

I realized that some of the topics and reference were not appropiate for the current blogs but still of interest to many people.